Only one song allowed per Music slideshow?

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Only one song allowed per Music slideshow?

It looks like at one time you could create a playlist for your slideshow and play multiple songs for the duration of the slideshow. Currently you can only select and play a single song for a photo slideshow which is annoyingly lame when the same song keeps repeating over and over for the length of the slideshow. Are there any plans to change this to allow multiple songs to be played for a lengthy slideshow that lasts for more than one song? The iPhone slideshow app is a really cool feature and it would seem that making this minor adjustment would encourage people to continue to use this feature rather than go out and purchase another app to allow a song list option for their slideshow. Hope there are plans to rectify with an update or maybe someone can explain the rationale for only allowing one song??

Do the right thing Apple!! 👍

Thanks

iPhone 13

Posted on Nov 15, 2023 11:49 AM

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Answer 1

léonie

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Dec 10, 2023 10:06 AM in response to jgonway

For the time being, I am starting my playlist to play in Music, then I switch quickly back to Photos and start the slideshow. And can view my photos with music I like.

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Answer 2

Feb 8, 2024 3:11 PM in response to jgonway

Not unless you tell them:

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Answer 3

Feb 8, 2024 3:10 PM in response to Old Toad

You could use Garageband for this, too.

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Old Toad

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Feb 8, 2024 12:22 PM in response to Weathertracker

You can add individual song tracks to a Photos slideshow:

1 - remove the default song track

2 - click on the Music to bring up the Music library

3 - scroll to find the first track and click on it

4 - scroll to the next track and click on it, etc., etc., etc.

The songs will only fully play in the order selected.

However, if you want to customize the audio in the slideshow like iMovie 6 was able to do export the slideshow without music and use Photostage Slideshow Producer to customize the audio. Or create the sideshow entirely in the app:

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Answer 5

Nov 30, 2023 1:39 PM in response to jgonway

Thank you Jgonway for responding and confirming what I encountered. I’m hopeful others will also weigh in with their comments and that we can get Apple to provide an explanation and hopefully an update that this will be resolved. I would like to do an end of year review slideshow and having the option to play a song list would make it that much more enjoyable. Happy Holidays!

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jgonway

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Dec 10, 2023 5:13 AM in response to Weathertracker

Bumping it to the top. Anyone have some thoughts on this? I own lots of music that is uploaded to iTunes and available on iTunes Match— yet none of it is available to use on a slideshow of my photos?

Come on, Apple! This is a major fail…

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jgonway

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Nov 23, 2023 5:11 AM in response to Weathertracker

Yeah; what the heck???!!! In the past I was able to select an entire playlist or album to play with a slideshow and now all I can do is select one song.

I have tried on multiple iOS devices…

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Answer 8

Jan 17, 2024 1:38 PM in response to léonie

Thanks. That's ultimately what I did too but really that's just a "bandaid" approach.

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jgonway

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Feb 8, 2024 3:03 AM in response to Weathertracker

Bump; anyone at Apple noticing this silly mess?

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Only one song allowed per Music slideshow?

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